Authors
Silvina Montrul
Description
• UG provides a genetic blueprint, determining in advance what grammars can (and cannot) be like. It contains
1) an inventory of possible grammatical categories and features in the broadest sense, ie syntactic, morphological, phonological and semantic. 2) constrains the functioning of grammars, by determining the nature of the computational system, including the kinds of operation that can take place, as well as principles that grammars are subject to. 3) invariant principles that are generally true across languages, as well as parameters which allow for variation from language to language.• UG constitutes the child’s initial state (S0), the knowledge that the child is equipped with in advance of input.
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